'Working harder to be the same': Everyday racism among young men and women in Sweden

Race Ethnicity and Education

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 319-342

  Hällgren, Camilla ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; PERCEPTION; PUBLIC ATTITUDE; RACISM; STUDENT;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN; WORLD;

EID: 24344437094     PISSN: 13613324     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13613320500174499     Document Type: Article

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